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Spam

The whole spam thing is outta control. My ISP offers SpamAssassin, and I use that in conjunction with procmail and my own custom rules. Between the two, this gets 99.98% of the spam.

I just checked my procmail log, and did a quick count of the spam messages that have been caught and dealt with automatically. From 2003/07/01 to 2003/07/30 11:45, there have been 14354 intercepted spam messages.

Wow.

This is mail directed to my home address, which I've had since the early 90's, and to various vintagebus.com addresses. A lot of the spam is to my ebay maildrop; I specifically turn around and stuff that back into the abuse@ and safeharbor@ and a couple other ebay mail drops, which I'm sure are symlinked to /dev/null
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